Joshua Steele’s Essay Towards Establishing the Melody and Measure of Speech (1775) put forth a system for recording the voice in print that used a modified musical staff with additional markings to indicate emphasis and force. Steele’s method may have failed to become the established practice that he hoped it would, but his technology for recording has the potential to transform how scholars approach eighteenth-century practices of reading and listening.

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ISSN

1935-0201

Print ISSN

0193-5380

Pages

pp. 245-261

Launched on MUSE

2013-05-25

Open Access

No

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